‘Curry’ in no hurry

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Vikram Chatwal’s One Dollar Curry finally posts a trailer and makes its lumpy appearance in London Sep. 23rd, a full year after its Paris debut (via AiM). Nip-slip dictates that we pixelate, you pervs.

Chowhounds take note — the concoction this character vends is true Punjabi-style curry. The plot is a Paris-based, cooking-centric takeoff on The Guru, the trailer features ‘Kamasutra’ body oil nestled in a leopard-print bikini, the site uses a cloying, annoying faux-Indic font, and Chatwal seems to have both a cross and ‘waheguru‘ tattooed to his right arm.

Despite these less-than-stellar atmospherics, the soundtrack is catchy, and the movie doesn’t seem as bad as it so richly deserves to be given the hackneyed plot and inexperienced cast. It’s got an adorable, Ganesh-painted three-wheeler, the incantation of a six-degrees family tree is dead on, and Gabriella Wright is surely one of the cutest English-Irish-Portuguese-Mauritians out there.

Watch the trailer or listen to the soundtrack. Here’s the official site. Previous post here.

57 thoughts on “‘Curry’ in no hurry”

  1. PB

    I looked high and low online for Jaya Ganga yesterday(couldnt find it) so ordered the book.

    Any thoughts on where to get the film?

    Thanks a lot

    Sumita

  2. It will be interesting to see what The Namesake turns out like in film.

    I thought that the book, while it touches on the what-it’s-like-to-be-a-second-gen kid, never has the parents in the stereotypical “Beta, why can’t you follow the old ways?” contortions and drama that so many of the ABCD/American Desi/Colors/etc/etc movies do.

    To me, it seemed like there was much less of that who-am-I angst.

  3. Any thoughts on where to get the film?

    I cant find it anywahere – have been looking myself. It doesnt seem to have been released on DVD yet – shame. But you can get the soundtrack and listen to samples here

  4. Punjabi Boy – did more digging on the “Triads, Yardies” flick – the British film board certified it –

    ONCE UPON A TIME IN SOUTHALL Feature Film
    Classified 01 October, 2003 . Run Time 98m 57s

    Advice for consumers
    Concise Contains very strong language and drug use.

    The main spoken language in this work is English. The BBFC has placed this work in the DRAMA genre(s).

    When submitted to the BBFC the work had a running time of 98m 57s. The running time of this film was calculated from the measured length of 8904+15 ( feet + frames ).

    This work was passed with no cuts made.

    At the time of classification Ethnic Film Foundation was the distributor of this film.

    Directed by Sarjit Bains Producer(s) Manish Patel

    The cast for this work includes: Jass Bassi, Sukie Ghajminger, Richard Angol, Ashvin Joshi.

    A film or video, together with associated trailers may exist in several versions and all versions known to the BBFC are listed below.

    Category Type Date Company Run Time Cut Title Film 01/10/2003 Ethnic Film Foundation 98m 57s No ONCE UPON A TIME IN SOUTHALL

    Details are likely to be more complete and accurate for the version submitted most recently. When a film is transferred to video the running time will be shorter by approximately 4% due to the differing number of frames per second. This does not mean that the video version has been cut or re-edited.

  5. I don’t know what y’all are cribbing about. That if an Indian is in the west we shouldn’t succumb etc, do you think that only those in the west practice sex and prostitution, the world’s oldest proffession?! Look, we have been stereotyped by our own Indian filmmakers by making us always disciplined and ”moral”, we are always shown as ”no sex till marriage” as if there is no sex among Indians. We have been viewed by that stereotype, that we don’t let our kids date or have sex. We need to show people we have sex. We made the KAMASUTRA!!!!!!

    Anyways, this movie was made also for French, so they will like it.

    I was in the film, you can check out my website at raghavsuri.blogspot.com

  7. lol, you brown perverts.

    you see shadows. that is not her nipple or nip slip. bet you never seen a real women’s nipple, or even your mom’s nipple. indian people have dark brown nipples. you saw a shadow and pixelated a shadow. lol, morons.